Fix your attention on your intelligence. Let it do its thing.
First off, don’t let the force of the impression carry you away. Say to it, ‘hold up a bit and let me see who you are and where you are from—let me put you to the test’ … —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.18....
Find clarity in the simplicity of doing your job today.
False ideas about yourself destroy you. For
Failure really can be an asset if what you’re trying to do is improve, learn, or do something new.
Every project needs to go through this process. Whether it’s with an editor or a producer or a partner or a group of beta users or just through your own relentless perfectionism—whatever form it takes...
Erase the false impressions from your mind by constantly saying to yourself, I have it in my soul to keep out any evil, desire or any kind of disturbance—instead, seeing the true nature of things, I w...
Ego is more than just off-putting and obnoxious. Instead, it’s the sworn enemy of our ability to learn and grow.
Each day presents the chance to overthink things.
Duris dura franguntur.
Do I need this? Or is it really about ego?
Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—
Desperation, despair, fear, powerlessness—these reactions are functions of our perceptions. You must realize: Nothing makes us feel this way; we choose to give in to such feelings.
De alcanzar repetidas veces el éxito y mantenerlo. El ego rechaza las ventajas y las oportunidades. Es un imán para los problemas y los conflictos. Es un imán para los enemigos y para los errores. Lo...
Claro, el ego les ha funcionado a algunas personas. Muchos de los hombres y las mujeres más famosos de la historia fueron claramente egocéntricos. Pero muchos de los fracasos más grandes también fuero...
Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed.
But there is no reason to live and no limit to our miseries if we let our fears predominate. —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 13.12b
Being trapped is just a position, not a fate. You get out of it by addressing and eliminating each part of that position through small, deliberate actions—not by trying (and failing) to push it away w...
Before he became the most brilliant and famous man in the ad business, David Ogilvy sold ovens door-to-door. Because of that, he never forgot that advertising is just a slightly more scalable form of...
Atreus: Who would reject the flood of fortune’s gifts? Thyestes: Anyone who has experienced how easily they flow back. —SENECA, THYESTES, 536